MUMBAI, India, Oct. 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641114580 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Chennai on September 24, 2026, for A System For A Companion Robot.
Inventors include Prabal Khare; Beven Lege George; Siddharth Babu; and Asha Jerlin M.
The application for the patent was published on October 02, 2026, under issue no. 40/2026.
Abstract: A system 100 for a robot 200 includes a pan-tilt head 202 including a pair of cameras 204, a microphone array 206, and a speaker 208; a driving mechanism 132 including motion controller 138 to move the robot 200 automatically; and a controller 110 leverages accelerated graphic processing unit (GPU). The controller 110 including at least one database, one or more processors coupled with memory 108, and the one or more processors to receive real-time images, audio, and motion data to fuse employing single embedded edge AI platform; pre-processing captured images for object detection and recognition employing machine learning model; form episodic and semantic memory 128 representations from perceptual data for recall-based reasoning; communicate with user via voice assistant and screen to control the robot 200 using wireless transceiver; and perform localization and 3-D mapping along with compensating head motion to navigate the robot 200 marinating low-latency privacy preserving local inference.
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